I posted a reply and was *instantly* locked out for twelve hours. Why? Because I pointed out that in Star Trek, society is post-scarcity (not socialist, as was claimed by the guy I was replying to) and that mental illness is largely a thing of the past (as evidenced by “Dagger of the Mind” and “Whom Gods Destroy”) and the whole gender madness we’re currently experiencing is long past (see “Enterprise” episode “Cogenitor” where it is made repeatedly and abundantly clear that humans have a grand total of two genders, and that a third is weird and alien and really kinda disturbing to a lot of folks). The vague Twitter message said something about violating the rules on advocating violence or some such nonsense.
So either the sensitive little soul I replied to was lightning fast on his “my feelings are hurt, make the bad man and his opposing viewpoint go away” button, or Twitter has a bot that does it automatically. In either case, the “Twitter is a free speech zone” claim looks a little dubious to me at the moment.
Update: Now Twitter says it could take more than a week for my account to be restored to functionality.
4 responses to “So I’ve been locked out of Twitter…”
It might be an automated process after someone pressed the “I’m offended” button.
There had to be some level of automation to it; I was locked out before the reply actually appeared, Could be the guy I replied to was *real* fast, but I suspect there’s some combo of words that set off a Woke Mind Virus AI.
One of the messages said I’ll be restored in 12 hours, which is about 10 minutes from when I’m typing this. Another said it’ll take *at* *least* a week. Something ain’t right with that.
Twitter is a waste of your time anyway. I have a feeling most of the stuff on “X”, as it is apparently called now, is beneath you intellectually.
It’s an attempt at “outreach.”